In video footage taken at the May 2 protest, a tall white man is seen angrily confronting protesters, who were crossing a busy Plano intersection. Scott supporters demanded the man’s arrest and the firing of a police officer they felt did little to intervene. But some conservatives insist that the protesters were in the wrong for obstructing traffic.
Many have accused right-wing commentators of fomenting misplaced outrage. Rather than being upset by Scott’s horrific death, which his family described as “torturous,” some conservatives seemed more rattled by potential traffic violations.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Monday tweeted the protest was an example of mob rule. In a statement, he claimed a militant group of Black Lives Matter protesters were real the aggressors, and an Antifa-like character pulled out what appears to be a gun.
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